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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 25th of December 0274 | EVENT | Emperor Aurelian makes Sol Invictus to an official cult, it becomes the state religion of Rome. |
| 25th of December 0333 | EVENT | Emperor Constantine the Great elevates his youngest son Constans to the rank of Caesar. |
| 25th of December 0350 | EVENT | Vetranio meets Constantius II at Naissus (Serbia) and is forced to abdicated his title (Caesar). Constantius allows him to live as a private citizen on a state pension. |
| 25th of December 0800 | EVENT | Coronation of Charlemagne as Holy Roman Emperor, in Rome. |
| 25th of December 1000 | EVENT | The foundation of the Kingdom of Hungary: Hungary is established as a Christian kingdom by Stephen I of Hungary. |
| 25th of December 1066 | EVENT | William the Conqueror is crowned king of England, at Westminster Abbey, London. |
| 25th of December 1100 | EVENT | Baldwin of Boulogne is crowned the first King of Jerusalem in the Church of the Nativity. |
| 25th of December 1130 | EVENT | Count Roger II of Sicily is crowned the first King of Sicily. |
| 25th of December 1261 | EVENT | John IV Lascaris of the restored Eastern Roman Empire is deposed and blinded by orders of his co-ruler Michael VIII Palaeologus. |
| 25th of December 1553 | EVENT | Battle of Tucapel: Mapuche rebels under Lautaro defeats the Spanish conquistadors and executes the governor of Chile, Pedro de Valdivia. |
| 25th of December 1599 | EVENT | The city of Natal, Brazil is founded. |
| 25th of December 1643 | EVENT | Christmas Island found and named by Captain William Mynors of the East India Company vessel, the Royal Mary. |
| 25th of December 1776 | EVENT | George Washington and his army cross the Delaware River to attack the Kingdom of Great Britain's Hessian mercenaries in Trenton, New Jersey. |
| 25th of December 1818 | EVENT | The first performance of "Silent Night" takes place in the church of St. Nikolaus in Oberndorf, Austria. |
| 25th of December 1826 | EVENT | The Eggnog Riot at the United States Military Academy concludes after beginning the previous evening. |
| 25th of December 1837 | EVENT | Battle of Lake Okeechobee: United States forces defeated by Seminole Native Americans. |
| 25th of December 1868 | EVENT | U.S. President Andrew Johnson grants unconditional pardon to all Civil War Confederate soldiers. |
| 25th of December 1914 | EVENT | World War I: Known as the Christmas truce, German and British troops on the Western Front temporarily cease fire. |
| 25th of December 1926 | EVENT | Emperor Taisho of Japan dies. His son, Prince Hirohito succeeds him as Emperor Showa. |
| 25th of December 1927 | EVENT | The Vietnamese Nationalist Party is founded. |
| 25th of December 1932 | EVENT | A magnitude 7.6 earthquake in Gansu, China kills 275 people. |
| 25th of December 1941 | EVENT | Admiral Chester W Nimitz arrives at Pearl Harbor to assume command of the U.S. Pacific Fleet |
| 25th of December 1941 | EVENT | World War II: Battle of Hong Kong ends, beginning the Japanese Occupation of Hong Kong. |
| 25th of December 1946 | EVENT | The first in Europe artificial, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction is initiated within Soviet nuclear reactor F-1. |
| 25th of December 1947 | EVENT | The Constitution of the Republic of China goes into effect. |
| 25th of December 1950 | EVENT | The Stone of Scone, traditional coronation stone of British monarchs, is taken from Westminster Abbey by Scottish nationalist students. It later turns up in Scotland on April 11, 1951. |
| 25th of December 1963 | EVENT | Turkish Cypriot Bayrak Radio begins transmitting in Cyprus after Turkish Cypriots are forcibly excluded from Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation. |
| 25th of December 1965 | EVENT | The Yemeni Nasserite Unionist People's Organisation is founded in Taiz |
| 25th of December 1968 | EVENT | Apollo program: Apollo 8 performs the very first successful Trans Earth Injection (TEI) maneouver, sending the crew and spacecraft on a trajectory back to Earth from Lunar orbit. |
| 25th of December 1968 | EVENT | 42 Dalits are burned alive in Kilavenmani village, Tamil Nadu, India, a retaliation for a campaign for higher wages by Dalit labourers. |
| 25th of December 1974 | EVENT | Marshall Fields drives a vehicle through the gates of the White House, resulting in a four-hour standoff. |
| 25th of December 1974 | EVENT | Cyclone Tracy devastates Darwin, Northern Territory Australia. |
| 25th of December 1977 | EVENT | Prime Minister of Israel Menachem Begin meets in Egypt with President of Egypt, Anwar Sadat. |
| 25th of December 1989 | EVENT | Nicolae Ceausescu, former communist dictator of Romania and his wife Elena are condemned to death and executed under a wide range of charges. |
| 25th of December 1990 | EVENT | The first successful trial run of the system which would become the World Wide Web. |
| 25th of December 1991 | EVENT | Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as president of the Soviet Union (the union itself is dissolved the next day). Ukraine's referendum is finalized and Ukraine officially leaves the Soviet Union. |
| 25th of December 2000 | EVENT | Russian President Vladimir Putin signs a bill into law that officially establishes a new National Anthem of Russia, with music adopted from the anthem of the Soviet Union that was composed by Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov. |
| 25th of December 2003 | EVENT | The ill-fated Beagle 2 probe, released from the Mars Express Spacecraft on December 19, disappears shortly before its scheduled landing. |
| 25th of December 2004 | EVENT | Cassini orbiter releases Huygens probe which successfully landed on Saturn's moon Titan on January 14, 2005. |
| 25th of December 2007 | EVENT | A tiger at the San Francisco Zoo escapes from its enclosure and attacks three people, killing one. |
| 25th of December 2009 | EVENT | Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab unsuccessfully attempts a terrorist attack against the US while on board a flight to Detroit Metro Airport Northwest Airlines Flight 253 |
| 25th of December 1250 | BIRTHDAY | John IV Laskaris, Byzantine Emperor (d. c. 1305) |
| 25th of December 1461 | BIRTHDAY | Christina of Saxony, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1521) |
| 25th of December 1583 | BIRTHDAY | Orlando Gibbons, English composer (d. 1625) |
| 25th of December 1584 | BIRTHDAY | Margaret of Austria, queen of Spain and Portugal (d. 1611) |
| 25th of December 1628 | BIRTHDAY | Noel Coypel, French painter (d. 1707) |
| 25th of December 1642 | BIRTHDAY | Isaac Newton, English scientist (d. 1727) |
| 25th of December 1652 | BIRTHDAY | Archibald Pitcairne, Scottish physician (d. 1713) |
| 25th of December 1665 | BIRTHDAY | Lady Grizel Baillie, Scottish songwriter (d. 1746) |
| 25th of December 1667 | BIRTHDAY | Ehrengard von der Schulenburg, English royal mistress (d. 1743) |
| 25th of December 1674 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Halyburton, Scottish theologian (d. 1712) |
| 25th of December 1700 | BIRTHDAY | Leopold II of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian general (d. 1758) |
| 25th of December 1711 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Joseph de Mondonville, French composer (d. 1772) |
| 25th of December 1716 | BIRTHDAY | Johann Jakob Reiske, German scholar and physician (d. 1774) |
| 25th of December 1730 | BIRTHDAY | Philip Mazzei, Italian physician and friend of Thomas Jefferson (d. 1816) |
| 25th of December 1742 | BIRTHDAY | Charlotte von Stein, German friend of Goethe (d. 1827) |
| 25th of December 1757 | BIRTHDAY | Benjamin Pierce, U.S. politician (d. 1839) |
| 25th of December 1763 | BIRTHDAY | Claude Chappe, French telecommunications pioneer (d. 1805) |
| 25th of December 1771 | BIRTHDAY | Dorothy Wordsworth, English diarist and sister of William Wordsworth (d. 1855) |
| 25th of December 1810 | BIRTHDAY | Alexandros Rhizos Rhankaves, Greek poet and statesman (d. 1892) |
| 25th of December 1821 | BIRTHDAY | Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross (d. 1912) |
| 25th of December 1829 | BIRTHDAY | Patrick Gilmore, Irish-American composer (d. 1892) |
| 25th of December 1856 | BIRTHDAY | Hans von Bartels, German painter (d. 1913) |
| 25th of December 1856 | BIRTHDAY | Pud Galvin, American professional baseball pitcher (d. 1902) |
| 25th of December 1860 | BIRTHDAY | Manwel Dimech, Maltese philosopher and social reformer (d. 1921) |
| 25th of December 1861 | BIRTHDAY | Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya, Indian founder of Banaras Hindu University (d. 1946) |
| 25th of December 1864 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Cahill, American soccer coach (d. 1951) |
| 25th of December 1865 | BIRTHDAY | Evangeline Booth, the 4th General of The Salvation Army (d. 1950) |
| 25th of December 1870 | BIRTHDAY | Helena Rubinstein, Polish-born American cosmetics industrialist (d. 1965) |
| 25th of December 1873 | BIRTHDAY | Otto Frederick Hunziker, Swiss-born American dairy educator (d. 1959) |
| 25th of December 1874 | BIRTHDAY | Lina Cavalieri, Italian soprano (d. 1944) |
| 25th of December 1875 | BIRTHDAY | Theodor Innitzer, Austrian cardinal (d. 1955) |
| 25th of December 1876 | BIRTHDAY | Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan (d. 1948) |
| 25th of December 1876 | BIRTHDAY | Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus, Nobel laureate (d. 1959) |
| 25th of December 1878 | BIRTHDAY | Louis Chevrolet, Swiss-born race car driver (d. 1941) |
| 25th of December 1883 | BIRTHDAY | Hugo Bergmann, German and Israeli Jewish philosopher (d. 1975) |
| 25th of December 1884 | BIRTHDAY | Evelyn Nesbit, American actress (d. 1967) |
| 25th of December 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Kid Ory, American musician (d. 1973) |
| 25th of December 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Conrad Hilton, American hotelier (d. 1979) |
| 25th of December 1889 | BIRTHDAY | Lila Bell Wallace, American magazine publisher (Reader's Digest) (d. 1984) |
| 25th of December 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Noel Odell, British mountaineer (d. 1987) |
| 25th of December 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Ripley, collector of odd facts (d. 1949) |
| 25th of December 1891 | BIRTHDAY | Clarrie Grimmett, Australian cricketer (d. 1980) |
| 25th of December 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Humphrey Bogart, American actor (d. 1957) |
| 25th of December 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester (d. 2004) |
| 25th of December 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Barton MacLane, American actor (d. 1969) |
| 25th of December 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Gerhard Herzberg, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999) |
| 25th of December 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Ernst Ruska, Nobel laureate (d. 1988) |
| 25th of December 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Lew Grade, Ukrainian-born film producer (d. 1998) |
| 25th of December 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Glenn McCarthy, American oil tycoon and businessman (d. 1988) |
| 25th of December 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Mazurki, Ukrainian-born actor (d. 1990) |
| 25th of December 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Cab Calloway, American bandleader (d. 1994) |
| 25th of December 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Quentin Crisp, English author (d. 1999) |
| 25th of December 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Jo-Jo Moore, baseball player (d. 2001) |
| 25th of December 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Ernest L. Massad, U.S. Army general (d. 1993) |
| 25th of December 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Zora Arkus-Duntov, Belgian-American automotive engineer (d. 1996) |
| 25th of December 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Louise Bourgeois, sculptor (d. 2010) |
| 25th of December 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Martin, American singer and actor |
| 25th of December 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Natalino Otto, Italian singer (d. 1969) |
| 25th of December 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Henri Nannen, German journalist (d. 1966) |
| 25th of December 1914 | BIRTHDAY | James Muir Cameron Fletcher, New Zealand industrialist (d. 2007) |
| 25th of December 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Pete Rugolo, Italian-born composer |
| 25th of December 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Anwar Sadat, President of Egypt, Nobel laureate (d. 1981) |
| 25th of December 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Ahmed Ben Bella, politician, first President of Algeria |
| 25th of December 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Paul David, French Canadian cardiologist, founder of the Montreal Heart Institute (d. 1999) |
| 25th of December 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Noele Gordon, English actress (d. 1985) |
| 25th of December 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Naushad Ali, Indian music director (d. 2006) |
| 25th of December 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah, Pakistani journalist (d. 2000) |
| 25th of December 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Rene Girard, French historian, literary critic and philosopher |
| 25th of December 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Rod Serling, American television writer (d. 1975) |
| 25th of December 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Atal Bihari Vajpayee, former Prime Minister of India |
| 25th of December 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Carlos Castaneda, Peruvian-born author (d. 1998) |
| 25th of December 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Enrique Jorrin, Cuban composer and musician (d. 1987) |
| 25th of December 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Nellie Fox, baseball player (d. 1975) |
| 25th of December 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Ram Narayan, Indian sarangi player |
| 25th of December 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Dick Miller, American actor |
| 25th of December 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Stuart Hall, British radio and television presenter |
| 25th of December 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Kenner, American singer and songwriter (d. 1976) |
| 25th of December 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Emmanuel Agassi, Iranian boxer and father of Andre Agassi |
| 25th of December 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Salah Jaheen, Egyptian poet and cartoonist (d. 1986) |
| 25th of December 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Mabel King, American actress (d. 1999) |
| 25th of December 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Stephen Barnett, American legal scholar who opposed the Newspaper Preservation Act of 1970 (d. 2009) |
| 25th of December 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Jeanne Hopkins Lucas, American politician (d. 2007) |
| 25th of December 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Sadiq al-Mahdi, Prime Minister of Sudan |
| 25th of December 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Anne Roiphe, American author and feminist |
| 25th of December 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Al Jackson, baseball player |
| 25th of December 1936 | BIRTHDAY | HRH Princess Alexandra of Kent |
| 25th of December 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Ismail Merchant, Indian-born film producer (d. 2005) |
| 25th of December 1937 | BIRTHDAY | O'Kelly Isley, Jr., American singer (The Isley Brothers) (d. 1986) |
| 25th of December 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Noel Picard, Quebec ice hockey player |
| 25th of December 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Duane Armstrong, American painter |
| 25th of December 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Bob James, American composer and musician |
| 25th of December 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Pete Brown, English poet and lyricist |
| 25th of December 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Phil Spector, American music producer |
| 25th of December 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Francoise Durr, French Number 1 Tennis Player of the 60s and 70s. |
| 25th of December 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Enrique Morente, Spanish flamenco singer (d. 2010) |
| 25th of December 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Wilson Fittipaldi Junior, Brazilian racing driver |
| 25th of December 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Hanna Schygulla, German actress |
| 25th of December 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Jairzinho, Brazilian footballer |
| 25th of December 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Kenny Everett, British entertainer (d. 1995) |
| 25th of December 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Vestine, American musician (d. 1997) |
| 25th of December 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Nigel Starmer-Smith, English Rugby Union commentator. |
| 25th of December 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Noel Redding, English musician (d. 2003) |
| 25th of December 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Rick Berman, Star Trek producer |
| 25th of December 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Pringle, Scottish politician |
| 25th of December 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Gary Sandy, American actor |
| 25th of December 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmy Buffett, American singer and songwriter |
| 25th of December 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Larry Csonka, American football player |
| 25th of December 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Gene Lamont, American baseball player and manager |
| 25th of December 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Barbara Mandrell, American singer and actress |
| 25th of December 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Alia al Hussein, of Jordan (d. 1977) |
| 25th of December 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Joel Natalino Santana, Brazilian soccer coach |
| 25th of December 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Nawaz Sharif, Prime Minister of Pakistan |
| 25th of December 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Simone Bittencourt de Oliveira, Singer and icon of the Brazilian music |
| 25th of December 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Louis Walker, American musician |
| 25th of December 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Sissy Spacek, American actress |
| 25th of December 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Manny Trillo, baseball player |
| 25th of December 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Yehuda Poliker, Israeli singer-songwriter |
| 25th of December 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Boardman, British mountaineer (d. 1982) |
| 25th of December 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Karl Rove, former American presidential advisor |
| 25th of December 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Desireless, French singer |
| 25th of December 1952 | BIRTHDAY | CCH Pounder, Guyana-born actress |
| 25th of December 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Annie Lennox, Scottish singer |
| 25th of December 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Wariner, American country music singer |
| 25th of December 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Alannah Myles, Canadian singer |
| 25th of December 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Shane MacGowan, Irish musician |
| 25th of December 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Kamara, English footballer and commentator |
| 25th of December 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Hanford Dixon, American football player |
| 25th of December 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Rickey Henderson, baseball player |
| 25th of December 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Cheryl Chase, American voice actor |
| 25th of December 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Wiesner, German footballer |
| 25th of December 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Michael P. Anderson, astronaut (d. 2003) |
| 25th of December 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Ron Bottitta, British actor |
| 25th of December 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Ingrid Betancourt, Colombian senator |
| 25th of December 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Dean Cameron, American actor |
| 25th of December 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Darren Wharton, British keyboardist (Thin Lizzy and Dare) |
| 25th of December 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Gary McAllister, Scottish footballer |
| 25th of December 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Stanley, English musician (Saint Etienne), filmmaker and journalist |
| 25th of December 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Royes : Music Video Director and Editor |
| 25th of December 1965 | BIRTHDAY | David Rath, Czech politician |
| 25th of December 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Toshihiro Arai, Japanese rally driver |
| 25th of December 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Thirsk, American bass player (d. 1996) |
| 25th of December 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Helena Christensen, Danish model |
| 25th of December 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Dowd, American ice hockey player |
| 25th of December 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Emmanuel Amuneke, Nigerian footballer |
| 25th of December 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Dido, English singer |
| 25th of December 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Noel Hogan, Irish musician |
| 25th of December 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Justin Trudeau, Canadian media personality and politician |
| 25th of December 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Josh Freese, American drummer |
| 25th of December 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Mac Powell, American musician, singer/songwriter (lead singer of Third Day) |
| 25th of December 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Robbie Elliott, English footballer |
| 25th of December 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Harris, American professional wrestler |
| 25th of December 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Alexandre Trudeau, Canadian journalist |
| 25th of December 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Nagma, Indian actress |
| 25th of December 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Hideki Okajima, Japanese baseball player |
| 25th of December 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Rob Mariano, American reality show contestant |
| 25th of December 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Choi Sung-Yong, South Korean footballer |
| 25th of December 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Marcus Trescothick, English cricketer |
| 25th of December 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Tuomas Holopainen, Finnish keyboardist and songwriter (Nightwish) |
| 25th of December 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Armin van Buuren, Dutch DJ & Producer |
| 25th of December 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Uhm Ji-won, South Korean actress |
| 25th of December 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Israel Vasquez, Current WBC Super bantamweight champion |
| 25th of December 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Joel Porter, Australian footballer |
| 25th of December 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Simon Jones, English cricketer |
| 25th of December 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Hyun Young-Min, South Korean footballer |
| 25th of December 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Rob Huff, British racing driver |
| 25th of December 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Marcus Trufant, American football player (Seattle Seahawks) |
| 25th of December 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Reika Hashimoto, Japanese actress |
| 25th of December 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Laura Sadler, British actress (d. 2003) |
| 25th of December 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Loco, Angolan footballer |
| 25th of December 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Katie Wright, American actress |
| 25th of December 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Willy Taveras, baseball player |
| 25th of December 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Shawn Andrews, American football player |
| 25th of December 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Rob Edwards, Welsh footballer |
| 25th of December 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Trenesha Biggers, American professional wrestler |
| 25th of December 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Shystie, British rapper-songwriter |
| 25th of December 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Cahill, Samoan footballer |
| 25th of December 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Georgia Moffett, British actress |
| 25th of December 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Alastair Cook, English cricketer |
| 25th of December 1984 | BIRTHDAY | The Veronicas, Australian singers (twin sisters) |
| 25th of December 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Leon Pisani, Welsh singer |
| 25th of December 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Perdita Weeks, British actress |
| 25th of December 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Doug Loft, English footballer |
| 25th of December 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Justin Sweeney, Australian rules footballer |
| 25th of December 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Lukas Hinds-Johnson, German rugby player |
| 25th of December 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Gordon, American basketball player |
| 25th of December 0795 | DEATH | Pope Adrian I |
| 25th of December 0820 | DEATH | Leo V, Byzantine Emperor (Born 775) |
| 25th of December 1156 | DEATH | Peter the Venerable, French Benedictine abbot of Cluny (Born c.1092) |
| 25th of December 1635 | DEATH | Samuel de Champlain, French explorer (Born 1567) |
| 25th of December 1676 | DEATH | Matthew Hale, English jurist (Born 1609) |
| 25th of December 1676 | DEATH | William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle, English soldier (Born 1592) |
| 25th of December 1683 | DEATH | Kara Mustafa, Ottoman general (Born 1634) |
| 25th of December 1758 | DEATH | James Hervey, English clergyman (Born 1714) |
| 25th of December 1763 | DEATH | Suraj Mal, Sinsiwar Jat ruler of Bharatpur (Born 1707) |
| 25th of December 1765 | DEATH | Vaclav Prokop Divis, Czech theologian and natural scientist (Born 1698) |
| 25th of December 1784 | DEATH | Yosa Buson, Japanese painter (Born 1716) |
| 25th of December 1824 | DEATH | Barbara Juliana, Baroness von Krudener, Russian writer (Born 1764) |
| 25th of December 1868 | DEATH | Linus Yale, Jr., American mechanical engineer and inventor (Born 1821) |
| 25th of December 1875 | DEATH | Young Tom Morris, Scottish golfer (Born 1851) |
| 25th of December 1880 | DEATH | Fridolin Anderwert, Swiss jurist (Born 1828) |
| 25th of December 1916 | DEATH | St. Albert Chmielowski, Polish Catholic saint (Born 1845) |
| 25th of December 1921 | DEATH | Vladimir Korolenko, Russian writer (Born 1853) |
| 25th of December 1925 | DEATH | Karl Abraham, German psychoanalyst (Born 1877) |
| 25th of December 1926 | DEATH | Emperor Taisho of Japan (Born 1879) |
| 25th of December 1933 | DEATH | Francesc Macia, Catalonian statesman (Born 1859) |
| 25th of December 1935 | DEATH | Paul Bourget, French novelist and critic (Born 1852) |
| 25th of December 1938 | DEATH | Karel Capek, Czech author (Born 1890) |
| 25th of December 1940 | DEATH | Agnes Ayres, American actress (Born 1898) |
| 25th of December 1944 | DEATH | George Steer, British journalist (Born 1909) |
| 25th of December 1946 | DEATH | W. C. Fields, American comedian (Born 1880) |
| 25th of December 1947 | DEATH | Gaspar G. Bacon, American politician (Born 1886) |
| 25th of December 1949 | DEATH | Leon Schlesinger, American film producer (Born 1884) |
| 25th of December 1950 | DEATH | Neil Francis Hawkins, British fascist (Born 1903) |
| 25th of December 1952 | DEATH | Margrethe Mather, photographer (Born 1886) |
| 25th of December 1953 | DEATH | Patsy Donovan, Irish-born American baseball player (Born 1865) |
| 25th of December 1954 | DEATH | Johnny Ace, American singer (Born 1929) |
| 25th of December 1956 | DEATH | Robert Walser, Swiss writer (Born 1878) |
| 25th of December 1957 | DEATH | Charles Pathe, French pioneer of film and record industries (Born 1863) |
| 25th of December 1961 | DEATH | Otto Loewi, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (Born 1873) |
| 25th of December 1961 | DEATH | Owen Brewster, American politician (Born 1888) |
| 25th of December 1963 | DEATH | Tristan Tzara, Romanian writer (Born 1896) |
| 25th of December 1973 | DEATH | Ismet Inonu, Turkish statesman (Born 1884) |
| 25th of December 1973 | DEATH | Gabriel Voisin, French aviator (Born 1880) |
| 25th of December 1975 | DEATH | Gaston Gallimard, French publisher (Born 1881) |
| 25th of December 1977 | DEATH | Charlie Chaplin, English actor and film director (Born 1889) |
| 25th of December 1979 | DEATH | Joan Blondell, American actress (Born 1906) |
| 25th of December 1979 | DEATH | Jordi Bonet, Quebec muralist and sculptor (Born 1932) |
| 25th of December 1983 | DEATH | Joan Miro, Catalan painter (Born 1893) |
| 25th of December 1988 | DEATH | Edward Pelham-Clinton, 10th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne (Born 1920) |
| 25th of December 1988 | DEATH | Ooka Shohei, Japanese novelist (Born 1909) |
| 25th of December 1989 | DEATH | Nicolae Ceausescu, Romanian dictator(executed in revolution) (Born 1918) |
| 25th of December 1989 | DEATH | Elena Ceausescu, Romanian politician(executed in revolution) (Born 1916) |
| 25th of December 1989 | DEATH | Billy Martin, American baseball manager (Born 1928) |
| 25th of December 1992 | DEATH | Monica Dickens, British writer (Born 1915) |
| 25th of December 1993 | DEATH | Pierre Victor Auger, French physicist (Born 1899) |
| 25th of December 1994 | DEATH | Zail Singh, President of India (Born 1916) |
| 25th of December 1995 | DEATH | Emmanuel Levinas, French philosopher (Born 1906) |
| 25th of December 1995 | DEATH | Dean Martin, American singer (Born 1917) |
| 25th of December 1996 | DEATH | JonBenet Ramsey, American beauty queen and murder victim (Born 1990) |
| 25th of December 1996 | DEATH | Bill Hewitt, Canadian sportscaster (Born 1928) |
| 25th of December 1997 | DEATH | Denver Pyle, American actor (Born 1920) |
| 25th of December 1997 | DEATH | Anatoli Boukreev, Kazakh mountaineer (Born 1958) |
| 25th of December 1998 | DEATH | John Pulman, English snooker player (Born 1926) |
| 25th of December 1998 | DEATH | Bryan MacLean, American musician and songwriter (Love) (Born 1946) |
| 25th of December 1999 | DEATH | Peter Jeffrey, English actor (Born 1929) |
| 25th of December 2000 | DEATH | Neil Hawke, Australian cricketer and footballer (Born 1939) |
| 25th of December 2000 | DEATH | Willard Van Orman Quine, American philosopher (Born 1908) |
| 25th of December 2002 | DEATH | William T. Orr, American television producer (Born 1917) |
| 25th of December 2003 | DEATH | Nicholas Mavroules, American politician (Born 1929) |
| 25th of December 2004 | DEATH | Gennady Strekalov, Russian cosmonaut (Born 1940) |
| 25th of December 2005 | DEATH | Birgit Nilsson, Swedish opera singer (Born 1918) |
| 25th of December 2005 | DEATH | Derek Bailey, English guitar virtuoso (Born 1930) |
| 25th of December 2005 | DEATH | Robert Barbers, Philippine senator (Born 1944) |
| 25th of December 2006 | DEATH | James Brown, American singer (Born 1933) |
| 25th of December 2006 | DEATH | Hiroaki Hidaka, Japanese serial killer (Born 1962) |
| 25th of December 2007 | DEATH | Desmond Barrick, English Cricketer (Born 1927) |
| 25th of December 2007 | DEATH | Mighty King Kong, Kenyan reggae musician (Born 1973) |
| 25th of December 2007 | DEATH | Jim Beauchamp, American baseball player (Born 1939) |
| 25th of December 2008 | DEATH | Eartha Kitt, American actress and singer (Born 1927) |
| 25th of December 2009 | DEATH | Vic Chesnutt, American singer and songwriter (Born 1964) |
| 25th of December 2009 | DEATH | Giridharilal Kedia, Indian businessman and entrepreneur (Born 1936) |
| 25th of December 2010 | DEATH | Carlos Andres Perez, former President of Venezuela (Born 1922) |